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Rihanna’s designer lingerie show was the talk of New York Fashion Week – but the A-list guests were banned from using their phones after Amazon Prime Video bagged the rights to stream it. Those watching the star-studded catwalk show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center were not allowed to post photos before Amazon streams it from 20 …

While music fans struggle to get tickets to the likes of Glastonbury, Reading and the Isle of Wight festivals, many are turning to so-called “fake” versions of these music events featuring tribute acts to get their live fix. Over the past five years, ticket sales for Glastonbudget, Tribfest and The Big Fake Festival have seen …

More than one million people have subscribed to a 5G mobile contact in South Korea, meaning demand for the high-speed technology has easily outpaced the country’s adoption of 4G. The government has said it took 69 days for the landmark to be reached. That is much faster than the 80 days it took the last-generation, …

Facebook has said it will not remove a manipulated video of its chief Mark Zuckerberg from Instagram, in which he appears to credit a secretive organisation for his success. The clip is a “deepfake”, made by AI software that uses photos of a person to create a video of them in action. Facebook had previously …

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has given “provisional” approval to plans that would enable shows to be available on the BBC iPlayer for longer. The BBC wants to change the iPlayer from a 30-day catch-up service to one where programmes are available for 12 months as standard. After a competition assessment, Ofcom decided the changes could “deliver …

Comic Relief is to send fewer celebrities abroad after criticism that stars like Stacey Dooley were going to Africa as “white saviours”. The charity’s co-founder, screenwriter Richard Curtis, told MPs TV appeals “will be heading in the direction of not using” celebrities abroad. He said they would be “very careful to give voices to people” …

A US move to put Huawei on a trade blacklist “sets a dangerous precedent” that will harm billions of consumers, the firm’s top legal officer said. Speaking at a press conference, Song Liuping said the trade ban would also “directly harm” American companies and affect jobs. Washington recently added Huawei to a list of companies …

The US Navy is seeking to create an archive of at least 350 billion social media posts from around the world, in order to study how people talk online. The military project team has not specified which social media platform it intends to collect the data from. The posts must be publicly available, come from …

EU leaders are heading to Brussels to consider candidates for the organisation’s most important jobs in the wake of parliamentary elections. The presidency of the EU Commission, currently held by Jean-Claude Juncker, is among those up for grabs. One of the candidates, Frans Timmermans, compared the process to brutal TV drama Game of Thrones. The …

TV comedy series Gavin and Stacey is set to return for a one-off Christmas special, James Corden has announced. Tweeting a picture of a script, Corden said he and co-writer Ruth Jones had been “keeping this secret for a while”. The Bafta-winning sitcom, about a long-distance relationship between a girl from south Wales and an …